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Thursday, December 21, 2006

Best Comment Ever!

I was just reading Small Dead Animals and Bob posted this about discontent among greens about Elizabeth May's views on abortion when I saw the best comment ever.

Some background:
Elizabeth May says that abortion isn't good but it's good to have it as an option. She also said that she wouldn't have one herself.
Judy Rebick is a activist who was formerly a green.
They are both Americans living and working in Canada.

Bonus: Rebick and May are both American citizens! I propose the following headine: "Yank Skank Breaks Rank, Greens Tank"

Posted by: Bob at December 21, 2006 10:17 AM

I'm not on the committee or anything but I think Bob deserves a Pulitzer.

Monday, December 18, 2006

CBCs Newest Reporter

Update: The text used in CBC article (2006-12-15) was added to wikipedia (2006-03-03).

This was forwarded to me by my housemate over the weekend.
I happened across this article on the CBC website:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2006/12/15/garneau-mars.html

The closing paragraph reads:

"After the Diefenbaker government axed the Arrow, many members of the Avro Canada engineering and technical staff left Canada for the U.S. to become lead engineers, program managers and heads of engineering in NASA's manned space programs Mercury to Apollo , which led to the first man on the moon in 1969."


I then decided I would see what wikipedia has to say about the Avro Arrow. A segment of the opening paragraph of their article reads:

"Many of the Avro Canada engineering and technical staff, led by Jim Chamberlin, migrated to the United States in a massive "brain drain" to become lead engineers, program managers and heads of engineering in NASA's manned space programs - Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo."

I'm glad to see our tax dollars pay for such well researched journalism.

Mike